· Community foundation
The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc
The community foundation for northern virginia's mission is to advance equity across northern virginia through philanthropy and community leadership with the vision of building a community that works for everyone.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 218 grants below total $7,057,691 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,423,766 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,366,075 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $262k
- $10k–50k153 grants · $2.7M
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $675,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY (PENN STATE UNIVERSITY) | $450,000 |
| CLAUDE MOORE OPPORTUNITIES | $362,775 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $350,000 |
| NORTHERN VIRGINIA REGIONAL PARK AUTHORITY (NOVA PARKS) | $238,792 |
| CHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER | $200,000 |
| AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| MOUNTAINSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND | $142,794 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $130,250 |
| ARC OF LOUDOUN | $102,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $92,200 |
| INOVA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $72,825 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN AND NORTHERN FAUQUIER COUNTIES | $67,553 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
366 repeat relationships — 159 still active in FY2025, 207 since wound down; 50 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- GMGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +37%
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +10%
- IHINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +16%
Funded once
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3.0M · revenue +63%- LILARCHE Incone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +12%
- SOST OLAF COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $101k · revenue +38%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
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The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Coalition for Queer Creative Arts Therapies Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
648 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 648 of the 748 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINSIDE MONTESSORI ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Hospital Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LA COCINA VA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN AND NORTHERN FAUQUIER COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF LOUDOUN ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JOB'S DAUGHTERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CLAUDE MOORE OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds EDUTUTOR OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds Capital Hospice ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds LARCHE Inc ↗
- Who funds PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC ↗
- Who funds INFANT TODDLER FAMILY DAYCARE OF NORTHERN VA INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of the National Capital Area · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Act for Alexandria · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Jv Schiro Zavela Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Arlington Community Foundation · Washington Forrest Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Melwood Horticultural Training Center Inc — 73% of income from government
- Nature Forward — 32% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc — 29% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Capital Hospice — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.